On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 10:54:47 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-11-21 10:34 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:16:06 -0000, "Ophelia" >
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> "U.S. Janet B." wrote in message
> >> ...
> >>
> >>
> >> CDC says eat no romaine lettuce in any form, anywhere, from no
> >> location. It is not safe to eat.
> >>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wel...cid=spartandhp
> >> or
> >> http://tinyurl.com/y85p68dq
> >>
> >> Janet US
> >>
> >> ==
> >>
> >> Good warning, thank you! They say it is true of Romaine lettuce
> >> 'everywhere'!
> >>
> >> I guess that means here in UK too?
> >
> > sorry, just US and Canada
> >
>
> We get lettuce from the US, so when there is a problem with a product in
> the US we have a problem too.
>
> Having driven through the areas where a lot of American fruits and
> vegetables are grown I can understand how the get problems like this.
> The fields are huge. The farmers have trailers with rows of portable
> toilets and they park them at one end of the fields. The pickers are
> likely paid piece work, so there is no money made while they walk a half
> mile to use the toilet, and if they are infected with e coli they aren't
> going to have enough warning to get to the portapotty... so they squat
> and crap in the field.

In some areas, there's runoff from livestock operations, too. I believe
that's what caused the previous outbreak.

I probably will buy head lettuce the next time I shop, or Bibb or
leaf lettuce.

Pity this happened during the winter, or there'd be some hope of
local lettuce.

Cindy Hamilton